10 Years!! Sept 7th

Nate and I celebrated our 10 YEAR Aniversary on September 7th!!  We were able to leave our boys with Nate's parents (many many thanks to them) and drive to Mississippi to check into the Beau Rivage resort on the Gulf of Mexico!  We checked in on Tuesday and left that Friday afternoon.  It felt like the perfect amount of time!

The Hotel was beautiful and the buffet was super yummy!  We had a ocean view room from which we saw gorgeous sunsets on the Gulf.  The hotel was a casino as well which we basically walked around once and thought how crazy people can get sitting in there all day long and losing track of time (casinos don't have clock up anywhere just so people will lose track of time) and money, but we didn't come for any casino gaming anyway.  We spent over 5 hours or so shopping one day at an amazing outdoor shopping outlets called
The Gulfport Premium Outlets http://www.premiumoutlets.com/outlets/outlet.asp?id=83
Shopping with Nate can be enjoyable with no time limit and no kids, who knew,  he he j/k :)

I made the best decision marring Nathaniel Stephen Cottrell!  He is the rock that hold us together. We have three healthy, happy, enegetic boys that are our life and we love deeply.  Nate and I work so well as a team at our families goals and just living life.  He is my best friend.  Life will always be busy and crazy with kids, stress, duties, and obligations, but Nate has always taught me to give it all that you have, care for the people around you, and be strong in what you believe.  And I know for I fact that I believe in US!!


Super bright ehh Nate!!

Our whole time there was sunny and beautiful.  We shopped well, relaxed well, and ate very well!!

The beach next to our hotel didn't have tons of people, probably because anyone wanting to swim would just go use the pools, hot tub, and lounge chairs at the hotel, but it was nice walking in the water and getting my feet all sandy.  There was a long pier that we walked down that made us feel like we were surrounding by water on all sides.  I stopped and laughed and said to Nate "I think it is so funny the things we don't have to be saying right now because our kids are not with us.  Things like, 'don't climb that, you'll fall in, don't lean over so far, stop, that wood will give you splinters if you drag your hands along it'."  I didn't have to worry one bit about Nate not being able to take care of himself or not be aware of dangers, he has that handled all by himself!  A whole line of instructions, worry, and alertness was unnecessary right then and it was good to just enjoy us. 

10 years has been wonderful and I look forward to so many more.  As they say life has many twist and turns, bumps and bruises, but I have NATE with me and he has ME!